ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,352,031, issued on July 8.

"Urinal screen formed with fold lines" was invented by Jeffrey Scott Crevier (Dalton, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A urinal screen has a kite-shaped body having a longitudinal axis about which the body is symmetric, and a crosswise axis at a right angle to the longitudinal axis. There is at least one crosswise fold line formed in the body in which extended openings are formed along the crosswise axis, and there is at least one longitudinal fold line formed parallel to the longitudinal axis by extended openings through the body. The lack of material along the fold lines, relative to other portions of the bo...